Magical Thinking About Islam's Reformation

It is the responsibility of all Muslims to defeat their evil religious violence.

There's a very simple way to know when someone has officially
become an
A-list celebrity: when their opinions are listened to on matters that
have nothing whatsoever to do with anything they have actual competence
in or knowledge of. This famously happens in Congressional
hearings when celebrities are called to testify on matters relating to
parts they played in movies or charities which they support, but for
which they have no more expertise than you or I, and sometimes less.

Alas, this is a problem elsewhere in the world also.
The Guardianreports,
via another far-left website:

“I was born Christian. If that makes Rupert
Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate,” she
tweeted on Sunday.

JK Rowling is probably the most successful living writer of
children's literature; she has every right to lecture and be listened
to on that subject. It might also make sense to listen to her
thoughts on how to move from welfare poverty to wealth since she is
also the greatest living exemplar of this laudable change.
Who else has gone from being on welfare to being literally
richer than the Queen of England?

She has nothing credible to say about Islam, however, any more
than any other layman on the street. This is in contrast to
Rupert Murdoch, who as the owner of NewsCorp has to be intimately
familiar with the world events that his many TV stations and print
publications are reporting every day.

Thus it comes as no surprise that Rowling is not only flatly
wrong on the facts, her argument violates all logic and history too.

Whoever Can
Cause Change Is Responsible For Doing It

If you are a religious person, think for a moment: Suppose
someone from a totally alien religion - a Buddhist if
you're Catholic, say, or a Hindu if you're Jewish -
came to your church and started preaching to you about what your
religion was doing wrong. Would you respectfully listen, and
change your ways accordingly?

Well, you might respectfully listen out of curiosity or sheer
admiration for their chutzpah.
It's pretty unlikely, however, that you're going to come out
of there
saying, "Wow, he's right - I'm going to shave my head immediately and
start wearing saffron robes."

What a contrast to what would happen if someone from your own religion
came to issue corrective advice! Catholics listen to the Pope
and heed what he says. Although they don't always obey him,
of course,
they're supposed to at least try. Jews listen to Rabbis,
Baptists listen to their pastors and evangelists, and so on down the
line.

That's why we have
popes,
pastors, and rabbis - the idea is that they know more about your
religion than you do and can help you do it better which should help
you become a better person.

If you're not a religious person, you can still participate in
this
thought exercise: just remember your response to the last Jehovah's
Witness or Mormon that
knocked on your door. Eh, not too life-changing, now was it?

We have all heard, ad nauseum, about the horrible evils done
by Christians in the name of religion. We know about the
massacre at Jerusalem by the Crusaders, the innumerable pogroms against
Jews by devout Catholics, and of course, the Spanish Inquisition.

None of those things happen anymore! Indeed, this
past weekend
brought a
massive demonstration by Frenchmen, mostly Catholic or atheist,
protesting against Islamic violence against free speech and against
Jews.

To America's shame and disgrace, every other significant
country in the world sent their leaders to march in this protest
against terrorism - there were forty
(40!) heads of state in attendance
- but our country sent nobody of any significance whatsoever.
We
can be bipartisan in our condemnation: neither John Boehner, nor Mitch
McConnell, nor even a
single one of the many people running for the Republican
presidential nomination bothered to turn up.

The
point remains - people from every religion with one exception assembled
to demonstrate against anti-Semitic Islamism and censorship.

The French satirical magazine Charlie
Hebdo made its name publishing sacrilegeous, offensive
filth demeaning anything to do with religion, from the Virgin Mary to
the Pope to Jesus Christ. They never had any problems until,
to their credit, they gave equal treatment to Mohammed.

Then they got firebombed, and last week half the
staff got machine-gunned, which seems to have led to a great awakening
of Europeans as to the danger they are in. Maybe the peoples
of
Europe really are still willing to fight for their own freedom - and
Christianity is fully in support, even though Christian icons were so
constantly pilloried by Charlie
Hebdo.

In honor of the cartoonists who
gave their lives for
free speech, here's a picture of Mohammed.
Or possibly Obama.

So how is it that Catholicism moved from Torquemada to today's
Pope Francis who defends Charlie
Hebdo which depicts him wearing a condom, which by his
beliefs is a mortal sin?
Easy: Christians
demanded that religious violence stop, on any pretext
whatsoever.

It wasn't the forces of Islam that ended the Inquisition.
It wasn't the arguments of the Pope that ended the English
Civil War. It wasn't Buddhists that convinced the princes of
Europe to stop slaughtering each other's coreligionists during the
Hundred Year's War.

No, it was people who shared the same religion that persuaded
the violent monsters to stop it, or more accurately, persuaded
everybody else to take power away from the violent monsters.
It took several hundred years, but it worked.

That is why we stand with Rupert Murdoch when he, accurately
and logically, points out that it is the job of supposedly moderate
Muslims to shut down the murderous Islamist monsters in their midst:

Maybe most Moslems are peaceful, but until they recognize
and
destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.

To the extent that peaceful Muslims don't hold their
violent co-religionists to account, they are complicit in
their
crimes, and we are perfectly justified in not allowing Islam of any
sort to contaminate free Western society.

It's Not Our Job, It's Theirs

Have some Muslims condemned violence? Sure, but
usually sotto voce
and with an exculpatory, "Really it's all America's fault anyway."
Garbage!

A devoted jihadist is not going to listen to the Pope.
He isn't going to listen to a preacher, or a monk, or a guru,
or Richard Dawkins, or even JK Rowling.

But he might
listen to an imam who knows his own holy book cover to cover and who
persuades him from the Koran that killing the infidel isn't what Allah
wants today's Muslims to be doing.

Can this be done? It's hard to say: the Koran is
pretty blunt about the harsh treatment fiathful Muslims
are supposed to inflict on anyone who isn't
Muslim, and laundering out that filth will take some doing.
This job may take hundreds of years; it took hundreds of
years to excise violence from Christianity, which was never nearly as
inherently violent as Islam in the first place.

All the more
reason for us to demand that any Muslims we tolerate in Western
countries must start working at it
immediately, full force!

In the world of Harry Potter, it's possible for a skilled
wizard to rebuild someone else's mind and memories to make them into a
totally different person. Wouldn't it be great if we could
give all our Special Forces wands and send them out to reform the minds
of Muslims everywhere, or at least the ones we capture?

Unfortunately, JK Rowling has apparently forgotten that the
wizarding world she created is not real. Reforming a religion
cannot be
done by waving a wand; it takes years and years of hard work by people
that are members of it.

If Muslims are not up to the task, then they're perfectly
welcome to return to the
hellholes they crawled out of, and we have every reason to send them
packing in that direction without delay. The blood of
countless thousands of
victims of Muslim violence cries out for an immediate and profound
change in our tolerance of the intolerable.

As Obama's nauseating nonresponse demonstrates, our
ruling elites are going to have a very hard time with this.
They're so deeply enmeshed in their religion of tolerance, of
tolerating anything at all, that it will be extremely difficult for
them to admit that it simply isn't possible to tolerate Islam
as expressed by evildoers toting machine guns and rocket
launchers in the middle of the City of Light.

Unless they
admit that national survival demands that they discriminate vigorously
and
effectively against certain forms of religious expression,
however, they'll be replaced by leaders from all those xenophobic
political parties who gain more and more strength throughout Europe
with every passing atrocity.

Why didn't John Kerry at least show up? He speaks French - and he's used to saying "I am Charlie" from his Vietnam protest days.

January 14, 2015 9:55 AM

lfon said:

I wish your Mohammed cartoon was a little more obvious. I think every news and opinion publication, in every country, should concurrently run a "Mock Mohammed Monday". It's time to give Islam a real blast of disrespect and take back the power of free speech. Imagine if the entire world ran a front page with that. They couldn't bomb every news building everywhere. The best way to stop a bully is with a quick hard punch in the face.

January 14, 2015 10:54 AM

Courage said:

Islam is not reformable, it will die, why would we want it reformed or surviving. The truth will kill it, it deserves no respect. I tell everyone I know it it is a vile religion, including one genuine muslim immigrant. Do not give up your first amendment rights for sake of this bloody death cult another ism.

April 4, 2015 11:39 PM

Christopher said:

As a sometime expert in the subject matter, I enjoyed this thoughtful piece which should be clearly understood in terms of international terrorism and jihad. I refuse to uncouple Islamic terrorism from Islam, because that is taking the easy way out.

Many Muslims can reasonably be described as moderate but that is merely another tag. Any practising Muslim, who is called to jihad or to support, by any means, various jihadist groups around the world must, in faith, obey. To refuse makes the person and family an apostate and they can be executed at will. That is the theoretical view but it has been known to have been activated in several Islamic countries.

It was once put to me that a practising Jew is bound to assist co-religionists under certain circumstances. For example, a knock on the door and a visitor states that he is Jewish: "Friend, this night, I have a need for cover." I don't know whether this passes away last century - you do remember the 20th Century I hope.

The same format allegedly obtains in Islam. Would the host ask about the contents of luggage or a bulge under a jacket? I don't know and have no wish to try but a former intel officer once told me and in this century, that hospitality is a great cover for many activities. So what is a genuine Muslim?